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Los Angeles is not a football town in the way that cities like Green Bay, Dallas, and Pittsburgh are. The two biggest annual football events in the greater Los Angeles area are college games—the first being cross-town rivalry between USC and...
Los Angeles is not a football town in the way that cities like Green Bay, Dallas, and Pittsburgh are. The two biggest annual football events in the greater Los Angeles area are college games—the first being cross-town rivalry between USC and UCLA, the second being whoever makes it into the Rose Bowl. No, when it comes to pro ball, Los Angeles has never quite been able to get it together. The Oakland Raiders brought their winning ways to Los Angeles in 1982, but subsequently found themselves playing to tens of thousands of empty seats, prompting a retreat back to Oakland in 1995.
As for the Rams, they arrived in 1946, having bailed on Cleveland. Although the team began promisingly with winning seasons from 1949 to 1953, it mostly struggled until the late 1960s—in 1962, the team was a loathsome 1 and 12, plus a tie. In 1967, propelled by a defensive line called the Fearsome Foursome—Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, and Lamar Lundy—and Roman Gabriel at quarterback, the team went 11, 1, and 2. In a publicity stunt, the team hired an aging and battered Joe Namath in 1977, but he barely played, leaving QB duties to Pat Hagan. Then, in 1979, Vince Ferragamo, Wendell Tyler, and Billy Waddy did what they could to score on the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV, but they were no match for Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth.
Like the Raiders, the team would ditch LA for greener pastures in 1995, which left one of the largest cities in the United States with no football team at all. In St. Louis, in 1999, the Rams won their only Super Bowl, and after moving back to Los Angeles in 2016, the team made it to the Super Bowl once more at the end of the 2018 season, facing the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.
Continue readingLos Angeles is not a football town in the way that cities like Green Bay, Dallas, and Pittsburgh are. The two biggest annual football events in the greater Los Angeles area are college games—the first being cross-town rivalry between USC and UCLA, the second being whoever makes it into the Rose Bowl. No, when it comes to pro ball, Los Angeles has never quite been able to get it together. The Oakland Raiders brought their winning ways to Los Angeles in 1982, but subsequently found themselves playing to tens of thousands of empty seats, prompting a retreat back to Oakland in 1995.
As for the Rams, they arrived in 1946, having bailed on Cleveland. Although the team began promisingly with winning seasons from 1949 to 1953, it mostly struggled until the late 1960s—in 1962, the team was a loathsome 1 and 12, plus a tie. In 1967, propelled by a defensive line called the Fearsome Foursome—Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, and Lamar Lundy—and Roman Gabriel at quarterback, the team went 11, 1, and 2. In a publicity stunt, the team hired an aging and battered Joe Namath in 1977, but he barely played, leaving QB duties to Pat Hagan. Then, in 1979, Vince Ferragamo, Wendell Tyler, and Billy Waddy did what they could to score on the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV, but they were no match for Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth.
Like the Raiders, the team would ditch LA for greener pastures in 1995, which left one of the largest cities in the United States with no football team at all. In St. Louis, in 1999, the Rams won their only Super Bowl, and after moving back to Los Angeles in 2016, the team made it to the Super Bowl once more at the end of the 2018 season, facing the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.
Los Angeles is not a football town in the way that cities like Green Bay, Dallas, and Pittsburgh are. The two biggest annual football events in the greater Los Angeles area are college games—the first being cross-town rivalry between USC and UCLA, the second being whoever makes it into the Rose Bowl. No, when it comes to pro ball, Los Angeles has never quite been able to get it together. The Oakland Raiders brought their winning ways to Los Angeles in 1982, but subsequently found themselves playing to tens of thousands of empty seats, prompting a retreat back to Oakland in 1995.
As for the Rams, they arrived in 1946, having bailed on Cleveland. Although the team began promisingly with winning seasons from 1949 to 1953, it mostly struggled until the late 1960s—in 1962, the team was a loathsome 1 and 12, plus a tie. In 1967, propelled by a defensive line called the Fearsome Foursome—Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones, and Lamar Lundy—and Roman Gabriel at quarterback, the team went 11, 1, and 2. In a publicity stunt, the team hired an aging and battered Joe Namath in 1977, but he barely played, leaving QB duties to Pat Hagan. Then, in 1979, Vince Ferragamo, Wendell Tyler, and Billy Waddy did what they could to score on the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XIV, but they were no match for Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, and John Stallworth.
Like the Raiders, the team would ditch LA for greener pastures in 1995, which left one of the largest cities in the United States with no football team at all. In St. Louis, in 1999, the Rams won their only Super Bowl, and after moving back to Los Angeles in 2016, the team made it to the Super Bowl once more at the end of the 2018 season, facing the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII.
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